#lucancore

[catilinas]

the past is dead the future died before it could be born and me i feel also not so good

[aromanticofficial]

started nerding out about aromantic allegories in literature and art. is this a new field of study o r am i just aromantic

afaik it's not, but it should be!

[gaiuscaesarcaligula]

joining the civil war on the side of war

[xanthekholos]

t4t (tomb4tomb)

[noknowshame]

pharsalia reads like one of those dark web pages where you can listen to horrifyingly graphic mp3 files documenting the history of plane crashes except you discover that the site stopped updating like two decades ago because it turns out the guy who ran it worked in one of the twin towers

[lucancore]

whoops im changing usernames

[catilinas]

@en-theos :-)

‘late roman republic’ but with the same meaning as ‘my late grandfather’. it’s already dead babeyyy!!!!!

real and true, you understand perfectly, but DO NOT TELL THIS TO CICERO!!!

[neopronouns]

coining event info!

the event will be a week long — you're welcome to only complete certain days, combine various days' prompts, or start later than planned!

the tag for this event is #neopronounsjuly [pt: #neopronounsjuly. end pt], and i also recommend tagging me to ensure i see your coins!

dates: july 2 to july 8

wind | trees

moon | sea

technology | humanity

nostalgia | excitement

fear | calm

past | future

serious | silly

and here are some alternative prompts with different vibes! if you'd like, you can use these to extend the event by 3 days to july 11 (which would make the last day my birthday :3)

aesthetigender | fictigender

non-gender term

aurethesia | tenethesia | comuniterm

tags: @w4lh4ll4, @404shcats, @skrimbliest, @revenant-coining, @smilepilled

tags cont: @mufflin, @losergendered, @lucancore, @qerberus, @starrygender

tags cont: @en8y, @mogai-sunflowers

[catilinas]

i love when historical fiction is wrong about history on purpose

[mogai-sunflowers]

hx/hxm pronouns flag!

hx/hxm pronouns flag-

[Image ID: A flag with nine equally-thick straight horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colors are medium pink, red-orange, golden, grey, blue, grey, golden, medium yellow-green, and deep green. End ID.]

flag by me, requested by @lucancore ! tagging @radiomogai :3

[catilinas]

this letter really Got To Me for reasons of He Is So Fucking Already Dead. you want to read it soooooo bad. but also im super sick atm and spent 100 years agonising over 'nec omnino simulacrum aliquod ac vestigium civitatis' like in the end i went w 'not even some shade or trace of free citizenship' but only after thinking like. to ME simulacrum is the presence of something similar enough to what is now absent to make that absence obvious and in this case painful. and it can also sometimes mean ghost or funeral effigy or all those cool things. and vestigium is just an absence where there was something before. is cicero trying to say the republic is so Gone that there Isn't even a ghost? yes sometimes a ghost is the prominent absence of a ghost, but is the prominent absence of the prominent absence of a ghost a ghost??? this is cool to rotate in your mind if you think about the republic not dying and just turning into something else. it's octavian's birthday today btw. anyway i made this huge list of potential translations of simulacrum and reeeeaaaally wanted to go w effigy but you don't get effigies of things that aren't People and then i almost went with phantom or even phantasma for shakespeare's julius caesar reasons but it thought that really Was too much and so i went w shade because like. stat magni nominis umbra :/

in today's letter: antony sucks and cicero has hated him for a while! cicero cares more for the republic than for his own life! cicero wishes but does not expect to still be alive by 42 bce! cicero implores the consul-designate appointed by a dead tyrant to protect the republic!

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[dead-dog-dont-eat]

happy 18th b-day to me, gorgeous bitches, fags, dykes, trannies, losers, and queer-dos (joke + affectionate)

(obviously, all these photos + GIF ain't mine, and its not a tag game btw--just something random)

Just 2 tag a few favs: @autisticjonathanjoestar @never-wake-up @genderstarbucks @losergendered @mogai-sunflowers @virokuns @mysticalflowerblaze @pickle-the-lad @serialkilluh-1996 @screamfome @eggastential-biscuits @kadieeverfree @xtratooth @least-respectable-partypooper @lucancore @grimfurbybitch @mona-drixenol @loveydoveybugz @mxmagestyk @silentfoxproductions @hobgoblinlookinass @sick-thing @jiiamp @anotherwatchedninja @bored-stardust-explorer @xghost-of-reblogsx @garciafamlover500 @decora-kai @original-character-chaos @kiruyeen @simply02artists @pudgyroo @confusedsharkie @detective4blog @enderamethyst @fleur-foudroyee @tinyfrog-jpg @lagomorphlady

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Highlights of the week.

Improved my daily routine.

Did a lot of small things to make life more comfortable.

Completed a few medical quests.

Refilled meds supplies at home.

Left the house.

Exercised.

Made sweets.

Watched the beginning of Vinci's Alessandro nell'Indie (Bayreuth 2022).

Read a bit more about the music in Porpora's Carlo il Calvo.

Read an article by Maksym Striha about the history of Ukrainian opera translations. Now if only I can locate his translation of Bortnyansky's Alcide!

Heard from Tate fascinating thoughts about the Golden Banquet conspiracy in TGCF as a parallel to Lucancore Pisonian conspiracy. While mimesis. Anle and Qi Rong are both personified civil war and mirrors. Did you know that Prince Anle wrote an unfinished epic poem? With subversive interpretations of his own surname? And he really did use ghosts as a source?

Folded origami New Year decorations (stars and bats). Also a goose.

[the-acid-pear-ocs]

Lucancore

[gorgon-heap]

pov you’re lucan and you can’t decide on who the main character will be

[catilinas]

could it be this post?

do u have that post about narratives overwhelming the medium they are in and op references that moby dick is so long because ishmael is trying to avoid having to admit to/tell us what happened in the end??? I'm almost positive you reblogged it in the last few months but the tumblr search fxn is doing me dirty (surprise surprise) and can't find it

Here's the thing, I know EXACTLY which post you're talking about but I cannot seem to find it in either of the tags I might have put me in (my moby dick one or my haunting/narrative one, both of which I'll tag at the bottom of this ask so I can have another go searching later). But I know the one! I've talked to multiple people about this exact concept, of narratives which must be told and narrators doing everything they can to avoid the telling, with Moby Dick as an example. It must exist somewhere

@starbuck the beacons are lit - the gay boat ghosts community beckons for aid! You got this one lying around anywhere mate? Feels like it's right up your alley